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Several weeks had passed since Deringham's funeral when one evening Forel, sitting alone on his verandah, saw Alton coming up the pathway. His face was once more bronzed by wind and sun, but it had not wholly lost the sombreness Forel had noticed when he had last seen him in Vancouver.
"I'm glad to see you, Forel, for I've just come in from Victoria, and there's a good deal I want to know," he said.